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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 302 Central Utah Project, Bonneville Unit : Diamond Fork Power System : final Environmental Impact Statement, page 302 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 302 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; consultation 110vsut 1 I ll 11 LTAT I 1 IOINT AND N coordination ICOORD T LNA N TL T TOM L I 1 4 .4 k continued L comments from utah nature study society letter of august 2 1983 3 144 comment the major issue of the bonneville unit of the central utah project is the transbasin trans basin diversion of 150000 to 292000 acre feet of water per year average 197000 acre feet from the colorado river basin to the bonneville basin of the great basin although the draft environmental impact statement mentions the amount of water that will be diverted to the bonneville basin there is no mention of how this water will be uti lized lazed by whom this water will be utilized and where this water will go at this time one cannot assume that the water will be utilized by the irrigational and drainage component of the bonneville unit of the central utah project because this project has not yet been examined and no draft environmental impact statement has been written on the project thus at this time one can only assume that from 150000 to 292000 acre feet of water will be entering the utah lake and the great salt lake according to the value of 85000 acres of surface which utah lake may have the diamond fork power system will elevate the surface of utah lake from one to over three feet there is no mention on the effect of this flooding of utah lake wetlands adjacent farmlands and highways and state parks or on the fisheries of utah lake there is no mention of whether or not the diamond fork power system will transport water from the colorado river basin to the bonneville basin of the great basin during times of high flooding assuming that power generation is of highest economic value for the entire central utah project it must also be assumed that water will be diverted to the bonneville basin at all times even during flooding times as the spring and summer of 1983 certainly then the sponsoring agent or agents of the bonneville unit of the central utah project will contribute to the cost of the flooding and compensate all those who have received damage from the flooding cer tainly fainly the final environmental impact statement must address this entire question and contain stipulations of power generation during times of flooding of utah lake and the great salt lake response the diamond fork power system is planned to convey water from the uinta basin to the bonneville basin for use by the existing strawberry valley project the municipal and industrial mai mal m&i system and the irrigation and drainage iad i&d system if the iad i&d system were not constructed an alternative use would be made of the water planned for that system the planned utilization of the water and alternative use for the iad i&d system water are discussed under interrelationships in chapter II 11 the primary function of the power system would be for water supply with power generation secondary during wet climatic periods project releases from strawberry reservoir would be less than the average annual release determined from simulated project operation for the period of study refer to the response to comment no 122 when utah lake levels are high project pumping facilities on the lake shore associated with 302 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/3547 |
